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>Preface</H1
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><P
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>This guide tells how to configure and manage Enterprise
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Volume Management System (EVMS). EVMS is a storage management program
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that provides a single framework for managing and administering your system's storage.</P
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>This guide is intended for Linux system administrators and users who are
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responsible for setting up and maintaining EVMS.</P
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>For additional information about EVMS or to ask questions specific to
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your distribution, refer to the EVMS mailing lists. You can view the list
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archives or subscribe to the lists from
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>Table 1. Organization of the EVMS User Guide</B
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>1. What is EVMS?</TD
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>Discusses general EVMS concepts and terms.</TD
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>2. Using the EVMS interfaces</TD
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>Describes the three EVMS user interfaces and how to use them.</TD
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>3. The EVMS log file and error data collection</TD
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>Discusses the EVMS information and error log file and explains how to change the logging level.</TD
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>4. Viewing compatibility volumes after migrating</TD
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>Tells how to view existing files that have been migrated to EVMS.</TD
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>5. Obtaining interface display details</TD
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>Tells how to view detailed information about EVMS objects.</TD
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>6. Adding and removing a segment manager</TD
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>Discusses segments and explains how to add and remove a segment manager.</TD
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>7. Creating segments</TD
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>Explains when and how to create segments.</TD
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>10. Creating drive links</TD
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>Discusses the drive linking feature and tells how to create a drive link.</TD
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>11. Creating snapshots</TD
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>Discusses snapshotting and tells how to create a snapshot.</TD
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>12. Creating volumes</TD
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>Discusses the standard FSIMs shipped with EVMS and provides examples of adding file systems and coordinating file checks with the FSIMs.</TD
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>14. Clustering operations</TD
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>Describes EVMS clustering and how to create private and shared containers.</TD
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>15. Converting volumes</TD
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>Explains how to convert EVMS native volumes to compatibility volumes and compatibility volumes to EVMS native volumes.</TD
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>16. Expanding and shrinking volumes</TD
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>Tells how to expand and shrink EVMS volumes with the various EVMS user interfaces.</TD
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>18. Selectively activating volumes and objects</TD
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>Explains how to selectively activate and deactive volumes
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>19. Mounting and unmounting volumes from within EVMS.</TD
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>Tells how to have EVMS mount and unmount volumes so you do not have to open a separate terminal session.</TD
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>Discusses the plug-in tasks that are available within the context of a particular plug-in.</TD
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>Tells how to safely delete EVMS objects.</TD
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>Provides details about the DOS plug-in, which is a segment manager plug-in.</TD
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